Billy Porter Quotes

I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.

Billy Porter

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• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Looks
  • Black-and-white

• Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Country
  • Society
  • Gay

• The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Man
  • Black
  • You

• After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Black
  • Couple

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Create
  • Segregation

• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk

• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Up
  • Gay
  • Explore

• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Black
  • Color

• Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Community
  • Loyalty

• I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Black
  • Acting
  • New York

• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Challenge

• If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Real
  • Gay
  • Golf

• I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He said, 'I really wanna get into stand-up.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.' I care about that.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Around 2000, I was working on cartoons like 'PB&J Otter' and 'Doug.'

  

  Christopher McCulloch

• The IMF and World Bank are still appalling, and now the World Trade Organisation too. All over the world people die unnecessarily because of the international financial system. Every year the international financial system kills more people than World War II. But at least Hitler was mad.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • People
  • World
  • War

• When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Success
  • Girl
  • Moral

• I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Black
  • Gay